Take a look: Jasper Morello

Filed by: Darren on February 12, 2007 at 12:48
Filed In: Animation, Art

Charley Parker's Lines and Colors is one of my favourite blogs (one of only six in my 'read every day' list, as it happens). Recently it featured a rather stunning piece of animated film called The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello.

Directed by Anthony Lucas and written by Mark Shirrefs, it's a series of rather superb silhouette animation pieces that tells the story of one Jasper Morello, an airship navigator from the city of Gothia.

Charley sums it up nicely in his blog post on the piece: "The films are set in a somewhat dystopian world with a decidedly steampunk look and feel. It's in the graphical representation of that world, full of arcane Victorian machinery, elaborate airships, cranes, gantries, gears and attendant intricate objects that the silhouette format becomes a brilliant choice."

The Gothia Gazette is the official website for the series, and has details of a DVD release, which unfortunately is only available in the Antipodes at the moment.

Here's the first trailer, and you can find other sections on Wired.com. Quite lovely stuff, do take a look.

Filed on: February 12, 2007
Filed under: Animation, Art
Tagged with: Animation | Jasper-Morello | Lines-and-Colors | YouTube |

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2 Responses to 'Take a look: Jasper Morello'

Ed on February 12th, 2007 9:59 pm

That certainly does look interesting, lika a cross between Tim Burton, Marc Caro/Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Sylvain Chomet.
You can get a copy here
http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/785667
Deduct 9% sales tax, run it through their converter, price £6.72
Ariel on February 13th, 2007 7:08 am

Good going, Ed! Might just have to stick an order in and see how much they want to charge me in postage. Mind you, what's the betting my crappy old Phillips DVD player won't run Region 4...

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